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Re:RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes by Hasz on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @04:21PM (#46224035)
It is done for entire species.

There is plenty of fruits (Pawpaw, loquat, soursop come to mind) that are really not grown at-scale commercially in the US due to spoilage, easy to bruise, or other similar issues.

If you like interesting fruit, I highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/@WeirdExplorer/

for many fruits you will have never seen before.

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Re:RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes by fellowniusmonk on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @05:32PM (#46224886)
Loquat cardamom jam is pure sex on a buttered english muffin. Probably the most satisfying flavor I've ever consumed, certainly there is no more satisfying flavor. Sadly just as my tree started producing bumper crops a historic freeze killed it.
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Re:RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes by asdff on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @06:01PM (#46225242)
People grow it all over socal but it has the weather for it.
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Re:RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes by tdeck on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @10:41PM (#46227387)
Berkeley is full of Loquat trees too. There is one in the Safeway parking lot :).
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